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Overindulging in this sub may be detrimental to your mental health. Anxiety and depression are common reactions when studying collapse. Please remain conscious of your mental health and effects this may have on you. If you are considering suicide, please call a hotline, visit r/SuicideWatch, r/SWResources, r/depression, or seek professional help. If you are seeking support please visit r/CollapseSupport. Suicidal content will be removed. Suggesting others commit suicide will result in an immediate ban.
In addition to enforcing Reddit's content policy, we will also remove comments and content that is abusive or predatory in nature. You may attack each other's ideas, not each other.
Advocating, encouraging, inciting, glorifying, calling for violence is against Reddit's site-wide content policy and is not allowed in r/collapse.
Posts and comments which appear to be marketing, self-promotion, surveys, astroturfing, or other forms of spam will be removed.
Self-promotion or surveys of value to the community may be allowed on a case-by-case basis, if the moderation team is informed first via mod mail. We encourage self-promoters to engage in the comment section of their posts.
Posts must be focused on collapse. If the subject matter of your post has less focus on collapse than it does on issues such as prepping, politics, or economics, then it probably belongs in another subreddit.
Posts must be specifically about collapse, not the resulting damage. By way of analogy, we want to talk about why there are so many car accidents, not look at photos of car wrecks.
Information quality must be kept high. More detailed information regarding our approaches to specific claims can be found on the Misinformation & False Claims page.
Articles, charts, or data-driven posts must include a source either within the image or in a submission statement. AI Generated posts and comments must be prefaced by stating their source.
Vague, heavily editorialized, misleading, clickbait, or inaccurate post titles are not allowed.
When submitting a link post with content that is more than a year old, the year or the date of publication must be mentioned in the post title. For example, the headline of an article followed by "(January 2020)".
If a source's original headline is vague, misleading, or clickbait, then it is still rule-breaking. In this case, the content should be submitted with an improved title.
On-topic memes, jokes, short videos, image posts, polls, low effort to consume posts, and other less substantial posts are only allowed on Fridays, and will be removed for the rest of the week.
Less substantial posts must be flaired as either "Casual Friday", "Humor", or "Low Effort".
Clickbait, misinformation, fear-mongering, and other low-quality content is not allowed at any time, not even on Fridays.
Links must not have already been posted within the past ninety days or will be automatically removed. Links to similar articles covering the same event, paper, or news item as a previous link will be subject to removal at moderator discretion. Similar links by independent sources may be posted, but should offer some new information, insight, or perspective.
Posts asking common questions (listed here) will be removed unless the submitter indicates they have read the previous question thread in their post. Common questions are still relevant and important to ask, but we aim to build on existing perspectives and informed responses, not encourage redundant posts.
Submission statements must clearly explain why the linked content is collapse-related. They should contain a summary or description of the content and must be at least 150 characters in length. They must be original and not overly composed of quoted text from the source. If a statement is not added within thirty minutes of posting it will be removed.
Posts regarding a single link must be submitted as link posts. Commentary should be written in a submission statement, not as a self post.
Submissions with the bracketed text "[in-depth]" in the title have stricter post length and quality guidelines. Top-level comments (not replies to comments) made within these in-depth posts must be at least 150 characters or longer and are expected to be constructive, diplomatic, and thoughtful. Low quality or superficial comments will be subject to removal at moderator discretion.
Local observations regarding collapse should be submitted as comments in the current Weekly Observations thread. Local observations submitted as posts will be removed.
The current Weekly Observations thread can normally be found as a sticky on the r/collapse front page.
Do not post more than three times within any 24-hour period.
More detailed rules are here. Please report posts/comments which break Reddiquette or our rules.
Misinformation & False Claims Guide